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WHEELBARROW.

- Patented Aug. 30,1881.

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NITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

WILLIAM G. WVREN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'IO JOSEPH ANNIN, OF SAME PLACE.

WHEELBARROW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,584, dated August 30, 1881.

Application filed June 25, 1881. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM (J. WREN, of the city of Brooklyn, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Metallic Wheelbarrows, (for which I have not received a patent in any foreign country,) of which the following is a specification. v

Ordinarily the frames of metallic wheelbarrowsaremadeoftubular,channel,orTiron,and the cross-bars ofsuoh frames are fitted and fastened to the side bars by bolts passingthrough said side and cross bars, which bolts materially weaken said frame; or both sides of the frame are made of one piece and passed around the front of the wheel and fastened to the body or tray of the wheelbarrow by clips.

The object of myinvention is to have a better and stronger frame, and at the same time allow the body of the wheelbarrow to be replaced when worn out without taking the whole wheelbarrow to pieces.

To this end the invention consists in the combination of the tubular sides of the frame, (marked A and shown in Figs. 1 and 5,) said sides being bent to suitable shape to form a handle at one end, and at the other end is bent back and flattened, as shown at K, for the purpose of forming a brace or stay for the front of the body of the wheelbarrow.

D is the front cross brace or bar, and G the hinder cross-brace. Said cross-braces are made of malleable iron or cast-steel. If made of malleable iron or cast-steel, the said braces are 'cast of sufficient length to make the width of the barrow-frame, with an eye or piece like an Said eyes are made a trifle smaller in the inside diameter than the outside diameter of the tubes A A, composing the sides of the barrow, and when put together said eyes on the cross-braces are to be heated and slipped over the side bars into proper position, and the said frame, composed of the two side bars, A A, and crossbraces C D, will be strong without bolts or rivets.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section, on a perpendicular line, through the center. Fig. 2 is a cross-brace for the frame (marked 0) and the tubular legs of the wheelbarrow, (marked H.) Fig. 3 is the front cross-brace of the frame, (marked D.) Fig. 4 is a plan view of the frame of the barrow, composed of the sides A A and the cross-braces O and I) when put together. Fig. 5 is a View of one of the sides A, both sides being similar, showing the bend for the handle on one end, and on the other end showing the return-bend with the flattened part (marked K) to form a brace for the front of the body of the barrow.

When the cross-braces are made of wroughtiron they are forged to the shape as shown in the drawings, and described as above for steel and malleable iron.

The legs of the barrow, as shown at H H, Figs. 1 and 2, are made of pieces of tubing, the tubing th readed on one end and tapped into the eyeoftheeross-braceD,forwhich purposeasnib able offset is made on the eye of the cross-brace D, and the other end of the tube for the legs His flattened and riveted or bolted to the crosspieee D in the center between the eyes, thus making the cross-piece and the legs H H in one piece, as shown at Fig. 2.

When the side pieces, A A, and the crosspieces D and 0 (said cross-brace 0 being fitted with the tubular legs H H) are put togetheras hereinbefore described, a diagonal brace made of a piece of strap-iron (marked E) is riveted to the bottom curve of theleg H and fastened to the cross-brace O, as shown at E, Fig. 1.

The barrow tray or body (marked B,Fig.1) is made in the usual manner, and fastened on the bottom to the braces O and D, also fastened on the front to the ends of the side bars, A A, at K. As the pan or body of the wheelbarrow is the part that always wears out first, by making the frame of the barrowin thelnanner above described the body can be renewed or replaced at any time at small expense.

The wheel F, Fig. l, is made of malleable iron or cast-steel, of shape shown. When the wheel is made of malleable iron (which is cast in a mold to shape) or of cast-steel the axle can be cast in one piece with the wheel, makinga more homogeneous and stronger piece of work than when the wheel is made of part wroughtiron and part 'cast-iron, and a. much stronger wheel than where the wheelis made of wrought iron, with the rim, spokes, and hub riveted together.

Having the spokes of the wheel of 1. A wheelbarrow-frame composed of two side bars and two cross-bars, G D, provided with 15 eyes which fit upon the side bars and. shrink thereon, substantially as described.

2. A wheelbarrow-frame com posed of two side bars, having the forward bend and fiat hearing K and two cross-bars, O and D, substan- 2o tially as described.

WILLIAM 0. WHEN.

Witnesses:

E. L. FORCE, GEORGE L. BENTON. 

